Floyd Abrams Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Love is a state of being.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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You'll be free or die!
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I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
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Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
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I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
